http://feministblogs.org independent alternatives to the malestream media Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:21:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jess Fogarty(photo by Jaqueline Jane)I always wanted to be in a band.When I was 14 or 15, my mother bought me a bass and I taught myself how to play. Why a bass and not lead guitar or a drumkit? Because all of the best bands (the ones I loved ... http://www.thedollrag.com/2010/02/band-seeks-cliche-female-bass-player.html TRIGGER WARNING: THIS MATERIAL MAY DEEPLY TRIGGER ANY SURVIVORS OF RAPE OR CHILD SEXUAL ASSAULT OR OTHER FORMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE BY ADULTS OR RELATIVES. Oprah's Conversation with Child Molesters: beyond what you saw on television today, if you watched. What follows is from www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Oprahs-Conversation-with-Child-Molesters*. The Oprah Winfrey Show  | February 08, ... http://radicalprofeminist.blogspot.com/2010/02/oprahs-conversation-with-child.html I think that I am having an identity crisis. Or something of the sort. Whatever it is, it is inspired by twitter, the blogosphere and other internet meeting places. Or maybe today it is inspired by PMS. Who the hell knows?? My identity crisis has to do with language, ethnicity and ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BadAssFemmes/~3/t7dEpx94tQU/language-culture-and-feminism.html Sarah Palin is a gifted politician. She may be crazy and wrong about a lot of stuff, but she’s still a charismatic leader. Read, for example, this thoughtful comment by Ciccina — who, I assure you from secret personal knowledge, is as much a radical feminist as myself. ... http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/2010/02/09/poll-if-palin-runs-in-2012-will-that-entice-hillary-to-run-again/ Something about the wintertime makes me crave bread, bread, and more bread, and I’ve had some gooooooood luck satisfying my urges of late. Some of my favorites around Tulsa: Mexican Bakery, a block South of Admiral on Garnett, a bit past the traffic circle. That’s how we give directions around here, ... http://progressontheprairie.com/2010/02/08/local-bread-love/ There are other blog posts that I have promised to make. I’m still working on them. In the meantime, here’s a cool blog whose owner has has good links and great blog posts: Feminist Texican Blogeando: Latinos Are Blogging, Are you Engaging Them? Lean in close to your screen. I ... http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2010/02/08/feature-blog-the-feminist-texican/ Super Bowl Sunday is over, but the advertisements live on around the internet. The misogyny certainly rolled; my fav is Dodge Charger's Man's Last Stand, which you can read a great Feministing commentary summing up. But since we've been chattering about Focus on the Family's Tim Tebow ad for a ... http://womensrights.change.org/blog/view/the_super_bowl_double_standards_and_fighting_against_choice Everybody must have heard by now about the nasty remarks made by the former Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo about his desire to see the literacy tests for prospective voters brought back as a legal practice. You have to be an obtuse, illiterate racist in order to fail to realize that these ... http://clarissasbox.blogspot.com/2010/02/literacy-tests.html Silly Site o' the DayDespite my food poisoning (had to leave work a bit early today as I'm still not close to 100%) I watched the Superbowl and its attendant ads last night, albeit sans planned snacks. Overall, eh. Lots of "women pussywhip their significant others, the bitches!" ... http://elayneriggs.blogspot.com/2010/02/silly-site-o-day-despite-my-food.html I've been browsing Amazon for suggestions for a St. Valentine's Day gift for my husband. One of the first two recommendations Amazon gave me was the curious product you see on the left. I have absolutely no idea what in my shopping history with Amazon could have given them the ... http://clarissasbox.blogspot.com/2010/02/st-valentines-gift-suggestion-from.html Or, so it seems. It's kind of hard to get the story straight,and I don't entirely understand Australia's classification system for porn, so please correct me if I'm wrong. However, it would appear, from everything I've read on the subject (here, here and here), if you're a young-ish looking woman ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sparecandy/HYCs/~3/GALFN8SVVhY/australia-bans-cups-in-adult-films.html After years of grad school penury and a gruelling two-year-long job search process, I finally have a permanent academic postion and can indulge in my love of periodicals. Here are the journals and newspapers I subscribe to:The Nation magazine is my absolute favorite. It is an example of truly superior ... http://clarissasbox.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-subscriptions.html by Amanda Marcotte<br /><br /> <p><img src="http://images.fandango.com/r82.6.1.4/ImageRenderer/375/375/nox.jpg/121949/images/masterrepository/fandango/121949/jennifersbody.jpg" align="left"/><b>Warning: spoilers.</b> I finally got around to watching this movie over the weekend, after watching it basically sink at the box office and wondering if that meant that Diablo Cody had failed to write in a ... http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/untimely_bamboo_reviews_jennifers_body/ This was originally posted on the AWEARNESS blog Erica Watson is fat and she isn't afraid to tell you either. In fact, her one-woman show is called "Fat Bitch" and if you attend you'll learn a lot more than just how big she is. You'll learn about her 21st birthday party ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VivaLaFeminista/~3/ASXmCIEhxI8/erica-watson-surfs-into-nyc-on-new-wave.html From the Toledo (Ohio) Blade: Scantily clad dancers were the draw at a downtown men’s entertainment club over the weekend for an event that raised nearly $1,000 for victims of the earthquake in Haiti. * *  Although the billing may be misleading – lap dancing is illegal in Ohio – the ... http://feministlawprofessors.com/?p=14883 Daniel Dae Kim, of Lost, is the first member of the cast to find work after the show’s much-touted May series finale. (And you’re crazy if you’re not watching this show. Last week was mind-blowingly-oh-my-god-they-did-not-just-do-that awesome.) DDK’s going to play Detective Chin Ho Kelly on CBS’ remake of Hawaii Five-O. And, ... http://www.reappropriate.com/2010/02/08/ddk-on-hawaii-five-o/ By: Dana Hensley - from the series of guest posts written by Dr. Baldwin's students at Michigan State University.This is a video of an anorexic model; she weighs as little as 70 pounds. I'm aware that some men do suffer from anorexia, but not nearly as much as women do. ... http://appetiteforequalrights.blogspot.com/2010/02/wanting-to-be-skinny.html When most feminist-minded women think about having kids and raising a family there is one question in their mind: will being a homemaker go against my autonomy as a woman? For Shannon Hayes, a writer for Yes Magazine, this question also involved the impact her decision would have on the planet.  ... http://equalogy.com/?p=423 By: Kaity - from the series of guest posts written by Dr. Baldwin's students at Michigan State University.The other day I was at a family party, and while helping with the desserts, I asked my ten-year-old cousin if she would like some cake and ice-cream. Her response? “No thank ... http://appetiteforequalrights.blogspot.com/2010/02/children-on-diets.html ---according to Janet L. Borgerson who also claims that “something is awry with the historical memory around Medea,” and that his film “requires that we question the almost universal assumption that Medea did something wrong.” It was released in 1969, considered a failure--- yet Piers Paolo Pasolini was clearly trying to ... http://talesfromthevelvetchamber.blogspot.com/2010/02/pasolinis-medea-is-priestess.html <p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yrpvlmTTJ7o&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yrpvlmTTJ7o&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p> If today's rundown of Superbowl commercials weren't enough to make you worry about the state of American masculinity, the above compilation of violence from last night's ads surely will be. Costa Rica elected ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Feministing/~3/yBXaQrwHC3c/019954.html I was delighted to read this afternoon that the First Lady is gearing up for a campaign to end childhood obesity in this country. Scheduled to announce her initiatives tomorrow, Michelle Obama is hoping to raise awareness about the growing obesity epidemic in this country, largely affecting the nation’s children. Anthony ... http://www.reappropriate.com/2010/02/08/michelle-obama-delcares-war-on-childhood-obesity/ <p><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/w_j_L-iiDq4&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/w_j_L-iiDq4&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /> Transcript after the jump Dockers' feminist-hating "man-ifesto," now in video form. Cause if dudes want to "wear the pants," they should buy ugly khaki ones. <p><em>Dudes singing: I ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Feministing/~3/DzvRrQmpAsM/019956.html There’s an editorial today in the New York Times, summarizing a recent study that seems to have favorable findings for abstinence-only education. The study focused on 622 African-American middle schoolers, and found that those who received abstinence-only teachings were less likely to have had sex in the follow-up period than ... http://feministlookingglass.com/2010/02/08/delayed-sex-or-safe-sex/ <p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Nc3ergeeZok&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Nc3ergeeZok&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p> Love these students! Students at John Carroll University in Ohio protested during a school basketball game over the school's unwillingness to include sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination policy. From a student ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Feministing/~3/5JSWpky8s0U/019955.html Here's to hoping that Abercrombie and Fitch is on the verge of a quick spiral into oblivion. The brand has earned a lovely reputation as a discriminator against Hispanics, Asians, African Americans and people with disabilities, and has been forced to settle lawsuit after lawsuit for its discriminatory and unfair ... http://womensrights.change.org/blog/view/abercrombie_and_fitch_dislikes_disabled_non-white_non-thin_women Betty White must have gotten a pretty penny for this one, Goddess love her. I'm so glad she's still working. Super Bowl Ads Politics Feminist News Golden Girls http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2010/02/betty-white-super-bowl-commercial.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feministe-blog/~3/T3kszr7CiDY/ <p><a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201002080011">Via Media Matters,</a> I see that CNN contributor and <a href="http://www.redstate.com/">RedState</a> editor Erick Erickson was tweeting douchtastic last night.</p> I'm not going to link to his account, but it seems that the Twitter-feminist bashing has continued into today - complete with hackneyed comments about Birkenstocks, hairiness ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Feministing/~3/_RHuVj5uo_M/019952.html The idea of anti-Asian bias in college admissions is gaining further traction in mainstream media. This article in the Boston Globe perpetuates the rather simplistic idea that equates higher mean SAT scores for Asian applicants with an “Asian Ceiling” that discriminates against Asian American students. The article draws on Espenshade’s study, which I ... http://www.reappropriate.com/2010/02/08/more-on-anti-asian-bias/